My next e-book: three options for you to vote on

Thanks for the feedback! I’ve closed comments on this post now and announced the books I’m writing over here.

Update: something went horribly wrong in the process of using (the otherwise excellent) Gumroad for voting. I’ve transferred the overview of each one to this post, so please just leave a comment to indicate which e-book you’d prefer me write!

I’m really interested in writing all of these e-books, but I can’t focus on all three simultaneously! Could you help me choose? I’ll be following the same iterative OpenBeta process I’ve followed with previous ebooks.

Doug Belshaw

Vicky

To be fair to Doug, making people pull out their credit cards separates the sheep from the goats when it comes to checking product and it a common recommendation from the lean startup people … it’s far too easy for people to *say* they’d buy something but when it comes to actually buying it they shy away.

The workbook sounds interesting, although am intrigued how you would cover ‘everyone’ from beginners to experts. Also think that the workbook would work best we small practical snippets of what other people have done etc …

Doug Belshaw

Well, it would include open-ended tasks that involved self-reflection and peer review. That way tasks can be multi-faceted. Thanks for the pointer on case studies / user stories. Would definitely be worth including!

Theo Kuechel

I voted for, and ordered, the second option – the workbook. I assume it will be available to be remixed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 as previously. I think it will be a valuable resource to share and highlight on the Open Content Toolkit and folks using the toolkit can adapt the ideas in the context of open media content.

My abstract for a workshop on the toolkit at the OER 15 conference has been accepted and I think it will be a valuable addition to cite and apply in the workshop.

Doug Belshaw

Hi Doug, I tried voting for the Digital Literacies workbook, but it wasn’t working for me either. So I’ll cast my vote here!

Great work on your first ebook by the way. I found it extremely useful and have recommended it to a number of colleagues. I’m using the Essential Elements model to help plan a number of sessions for students this term.
Cheers,
Tim

Doug Belshaw

Workbook please. I’m flooded with information that makes sense, people saying how things ought to be broken down into practical applicable steps or what stuff is, but it is rare to find hands on examples of anything that you can use immediately, as opposed to generally good intentions that take hours to craft into good steps in a classroom, a course or some kind of self study guideline – problem solving activites that get a learner to where you want them to be rather than telling them what it is you think they should know (and I know that is partly because every environment calls for slightly different tasks, but if the tasks really work, once you have seen them you can adapt and use again and again in different ways).

Doug Belshaw

Juan

Doug Belshaw

#uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity v2.0? . I dunno what it is but this is something I’m now super interested in this year so this would be very useful! I’m re-discovering all this dead-time I had and finding myself learning more through podcasts while commuting (makes me more happy than reading the newspaper that is for sure!)